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Re: Catalog of Ideas
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lugnet.castle
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Sun, 6 Jan 2002 23:20:55 GMT
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Frank, this is one good collection (under 'detail'). Some people isolated
the details themselves, others have been drowned in big folders now.
A pattern catalogue would work from large to small. Because there are so
many examples, a hierarchy and some way for people to mail in new ones would
be nice.
In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
> > > > 3) Where are good places to read up on/research good building techniques?
> > >
> > > About a year ago I imagined a catalogue of frequently used building ideas,
> > > inspired by C. Alexander's "A Pattern Language".
> > > http://news.lugnet.com/build/?n=7353
> > >
> > > But right now, the best thing you can probably do is look at a lot of
> > > official Lego instructions in the Lugnet set guide (brickshelf actually).
> >
> >
> > Ahh, too bad you didn't roll with the idea then, then it'd be all ready for
> > me now ;) I had thought of compiling pictures from Lego instructions, but
> > that big ole problem of Time hits. Maybe one day I'll be able to! Between
> > 40 hours of work (well, I never QUITE get in 40 hours, but that's ok) and 9
> > hours of school (plus more hours of homework) a week, and at LEAST 60 hours
> > of sleep a week, there just isn't much time left :)
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> While I can't keep it up to date, I actually do have a good start at
> such a reference. See this page:
> http://www.mindspring.com/~ffilz/Lego/castle-details.html for example. I
> have made some effort to index pictures from MOCs which include
> interesting details.
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> I would love to find a way to split this indexing task up so that a
> complete index could be made. An easy start would be for folks to try
> and document their own tricks. When posting a new creation, think about
> creating a page which collects pictures which illustrate interesting
> details or construction methods.
>
> Another way is for folks to ask for ideas with some problem, and then
> watch the responses and index the pages referenced.
>
> Frank
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